Saeb Erekat
| Saeb Erekat | |
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Erekat in London, December 2014
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| Member of the Palestinian Parliament for Jericho |
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In office 20 January 1996 – In Office |
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| Majority | 31,501 |
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28 April 1955 Abu Dis, West Bank, Palestine |
| Nationality | Palestinian |
| Political party | Fatah |
| Spouse(s) | Niemeh Arekat |
| Children | Salam, Dalal, Ali, Mohammad |
| Residence | Jericho |
| Alma mater | San Francisco State University |
| Religion | Sunni Islam |
Saeb Muhammad Salih Erekat (also Erikat or Erakat or Arekat; Arabic: صائب عريقات Ṣāʼib ʻUrayqāt or ʻRēqāt; born 28 April 1955) was the Palestinian chief of the PLO Steering and Monitoring Committee until 12 February 2011. He negotiated the Oslo Accords with Israel and remained chief negotiator from 1995 until May 2003, when he resigned in protest from the Palestinian government. He later reconciled with the party and was reappointed to the post in September 2003.
Saeb Erekat was born on 28 April 1955 in Abu Dis, then under Jordanian occupation. He is a member of the Palestinian branch of the Erekat family, itself a branch of the Howeitat tribal confederation. Erekat is one of seven children, with his brothers and sisters living outside of Israel or the Palestinian territories. Erekat received a BA and MA in political science at San Francisco State University in the United States, and completed his Ph.D. in peace and conflict studies at Bradford University in England. He is married and is father of twin daughters and two sons.
On 8 May 2012, he was hospitalized in Ramallah after suffering a heart attack.
After gaining his doctorate in peace studies at Bradford, Erekat returned to the West Bank town of Nablus to lecture in political science at An-Najah National University and also served for 12 years on the editorial board of the widely circulated Palestinian newspaper, Al-Quds.
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